Discrimination of prey species of juvenile swordfish Xiphias gladius (Linnaeus, 1758) using signature fatty acid analyses

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 139-151

  Young, Jock W ^a   Guest, Michaela A ^b   Lansdell, Matt ^a   Phleger, Charles F ^a,c   Nichols, Peter D ^a,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; DRY WEIGHT; EASTERN AUSTRALIA; MARINE SPECIES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; MYCTOPHIDAE; PALMITIC ACID; PREY SPECIES; SOUTHERN WATERS; STOMACH CONTENT ANALYSIS; WHITE MUSCLES;

FATTY ACIDS; MUSCLE; NUTRITION;

ACIDS;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CEPHALOPOD; DIET; FATTY ACID; JUVENILE; MUSCLE; PERCIFORM; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEAWATER; SKELETON; STOMACH CONTENT; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

CEPHALOPODA; MYCTOPHIDAE; PISCES; XIPHIAS GLADIUS;

EID: 77957162124     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2010.04.028     Document Type: Article

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